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This course aims to assist businesses and individuals in the tourism sector. The class  will be an hour long, every Monday and Thursday, for six months. The course will be free of charge, according to the Yap Visitors Bureau. The registration began yesterday and will end on the 15th or when the num…

The 66th session begins on Sept. 13 and will run for a year. Thomson expressed deep gratitude for the confidence shown by the General Assembly in entrusting this role to Fiji at the United Nations. He also gave every assurance that Fiji would perform the role with diligence and all due propriety. T…

Officials of the state government were on hand to receive the special guests as they arrive at the Yap International Airport at 4 p.m. Members of an advance team, which was dispatched to Yap by the  group earlier to make final arrangement of the visit were also at the airport to greet them upon arr…

The scheme, coordinated by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation, aims to assist the vulnerable in society. Bus fare concession was made possible through an agreement signed between the government and the Fiji Bus Operators Association in Jan. 2011 whereby elderly persons ov…

The public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. in the legislative chamber with witnesses  invited from the governor’s office as well as the Office of Administrative Services. The Finance Committee has invited members of the public to offer their testimonies.

International and regional journalist groups say the sentence given to a government minister, who had been found guilty of involvement in an assault on a newspaper publisher, as extremely lenient. The Minister of Public Utilities and Infrastructure Harry Iauko was fined the equivalent of $150. Mari…

Island nations are now trading fishing days under a new scheme that aims to reduce tuna catches in the region by 30 percent compared to 2010. The Solomon Islands has agreed to terms with the Marshall Islands to buy unused fishing days from the Marshall Islands, according to Transform Aqorau, the di…

Last month, the U.S. State Department released its 2011 Human Trafficking Report, which raised concerns the scheme is being abused. Under the program, workers from Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands go to New Zealand to work in the horticulture industry. Vanuatu entered the scheme in…

The number of trochus collected by fishermen was just over half of what they should have collected during that time. The open season for Yap Main Island will end at 12 noon on Aug. 8. It will end in the Neighboring Islands at 6 p.m. on Aug. 11.

Hosted at the Grace Hotel, Australian consultants were updated on the adventure and enchanting appeal of Micronesia’s Guam, Yap, Chuuk and Kosrae. Although located in the same warm region, Kosrae Village Ecolodge’s Bruce Brandt explained that while the islands have their similarities, travelers are…